Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do – Live

Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do – Live at Bonnaroo, 2018.

Every time I watch a Sheryl Crow’s live performance video I feel so nostalgic for those wonderful years. This song is wonderful and brings me great memories. She’s the best!

Such a winsome, playful, confident, lighthearted performance!

“All I wanna do” is an example of elegant simplicity, and simple elegance. It’s a classic in the history of music.

Lyrics:
Hit it
This ain’t no disco
It ain’t no country club either
This is LA

“All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die”
Says the man next to me out of nowhere
It’s apropos of nothing, he says his name is William
I’m sure he’s Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy
And he’s plain ugly to me
And I wonder if he’s ever had a day of fun in his whole life

We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world
Are washing their cars on their lunch break
Hosing and scrubbing as best they can in skirts in suits

They drive their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Back to the phone company, the record store too
Well, they’re nothing like Billy and me

‘Cause all I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard

I like a good beer buzz early in the mornin’
And Billy likes to peel the labels from his bottles of Bud
He shreds them on the bar
Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers
Before blowing and cursing them out
He’s watching the bottles of Bud as they spin on the floor

And a happy couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another
The bartender looks up from his want ads

But all I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard

Otherwise the bar is ours
The day and the night and the car wash too
The matches and the Buds and the clean and dirty cars
The sun and the moon

But all I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I’m not the only one

All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling, the party has just begun
All I wanna do is have some fun
I won’t tell you that you’re the only one

All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard

Songwriters: Wyn Cooper / Kevin Gilbert / Sheryl Suzanne Crow / Bill Bottrell / Kevin M. Gilbert / David Francis Baerwald / Sheryl Crow
All I Wanna Do lyrics © Wb Music Corp., Almo Music Corp., Sony/atv Tunes Llc, Ignorant Music, Reservoir 416, Zen Of Iniquity, Reservoir Media Management (ireland) Limited, Bmg Rights Management (ireland) Ltd